One Arrested, One On The Lam In 3-County Hotel Caper

FRANKLIN, TN — A months-long, multi-agency investigation into a string of hotel hold-ups netted one suspect Friday, though his alleged accomplice is still on the run, according to Franklin Police.

Franklin Police joined with Metro Nashville and Smyrna detectives after the Baymont Inn on Franklin Commons was robbed by two men — one with a handgun and the other a knife — who "menaced" the overnight clerk January 11.

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That robbery was connected to other hotel heists in Davidson and Rutherford counties and the three departments identified Dashaun Hickerson, 32, of Antioch and Gregg Merrilees, 40 of Murfreesboro as the suspects.

Hickerson is now being held in the Rutherford County Jail, while Merrilees, a white male with distinctive facial tattoos, is still at-large.

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